CHILDREN'S ANNUAL GALA DAY AT PROGRESSIVE NELSON

Rights Information
Year
1926
Reference
F8927
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1926
Reference
F8927
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Actuality
Duration
0:08:45
Credits
Camera: L Scott

Chair-o-plane, fun fair, decorated trucks, sprot & dancing competitions, choir, callisthenics, fancy dress parade.
0 ft. 'Children's Annual Gala Day at Progressive Nelson', Photographed by L. Scott.
12 ft. 'Nelson children invite their country friends to a real day's outing'.
30 ft. Sign 'Welcome to Nelson'.
42 ft. 'Scenes at Coney Park'.
47 ft. Noddy train, carrying passengers. Pan into fairground - Kiosk ('Pages Vitagraph 6d.') chair-o-plane, merry-go-round and swing. Round-a-bout. crowded, children, and chair-o-plane. The crowd, children congregating for the procession.
116 ft. 'The Procession'.
121 ft. The main street, brass band leading procession; followed by floats on the back of trucks, pipe band, and groups of children (Robin Hood & his Merry men) some in fancy dress.
244 ft. 'Scenes at the Botanics'.
250 ft. Children folk dancing, boys vaulting, a girl doing sailor's hornpipe on a stage, girls swinging batons.
300 ft. Botanical Gardens, crowd.
338 ft. Decorated truck - pan around to crowd.
396 ft. Choir of children, some in fancy dress, conducted by man. W.S. of crowd watching.
450 ft. Three children in fancy dress - a cat, a jester & a wizard.
464 ft. Pan of boys & girls doing exercises in formation.
514 ft. A decorated Chevrolet truck W. G. Vining, with boys dressed as Red indians & Maori warriors with mere in a canoe on the back.
529 ft. Small girls dancing on stage; then a Dutch woman.
561 ft. Procession - children in fancy dress, decorated trikes/bikes, prams etc. W.S. pan of crowd & children.
679 ft. A girl on decorated trike.
692 ft. A man organising children on stage - Robin Hood, Maori warriors, Red Indians et al.
728 ft. Toddler on stage, M.S. of other children on stage.
751 ft. Children on ground, in fancy dress.
756 ft. 'The Live Wires of Nelson'.
763 ft. Pan of men.
792 ft. Finish.